If a blind student wants to do a CS undergrad specifically to work in assistive technology, what schools would be particularly good for that? (Feel free to boost for reach.)
“Where are my pants?” he said.
“We took them from you,” Dahl said.
“Why?” Corey said.
“Because we need to talk to you,” Dahl said.
“You could do that without taking my pants,” Corey said.
“In a perfect world, yes,” Dahl said.”
Finally finding some time to enjoy Redshirts by @scalzi
There's a village in England named Breedon on the Hill. "Breedon" is a combination of two words—the Celtic “Bre" (which means "hill”) and the Old English "dun" (which means "hill"). So the name of the village is “Hill Hill on the Hill.”
If you missed last week’s total solar eclipse, you’ll have seven opportunities over the next decade to bask in the shadow of the path of totality. You just might have to travel to get there. Live Science tells us what to know, from where to go, how long each will last, and more. https://flip.it/eKUvzt#Science#Eclipse#Sun#Moon#Earth
With Meta moving Threads — slowly but surely — into the Fediverse, @quillmatiq wanted to see if the Threads experience could be improved on Mastodon. He says what he discovered "went above and beyond" his expectations.
How so? As far as I can tell it’s a human at Flipboard posting an article to a nicely federated Mastodon account. Isn’t this why we’re here (to see interesting human sourced ideas)?
I'm leaving academia to "help people who are working to save democracy, and by extension freedom of expression, in part by helping journalism perform its most essential role."
I learned from James Burke’s wonderful “Connections” TV series and books:
“The key prerequisite to the successful exercise of this newfound empowerment will be to learn to think across disciplines." (writing on massive access to data).
He also quotes Norbert Wiener: “... the most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the disciplines"
Every time I get asked to help someone “fix their slow computer” I’m amazed at the variety of shit people install and forget about. But there’s one constant: f*cking #adobe#CreativeCloud sitting there chewing up RAM and disk. Typically installed (and still being paid for!) because the needed to fill out one PDF form once.
@EverydayMoggie I suspect it’s what a non-technical person is capable of in terms of computer “hygiene”. The last two cases happen to be 2017 iMacs with 8GB of RAM. The “slowness” was due to memory pressure from so many extra, generally unused or unknown (to the user) things needless running.
The good news is that some cleanup and less than $50 of more RAM can keeps these machines useful for another couple of years.
@taylorlorenz 🔥“Other columnists are gifted with a fountain of ideas, but all of their ideas are bad. Thomas Friedman is the Platonic Ideal of this type: taken seriously by important people and utterly full of shit.”
I love how now if you turn watch history off, two of the most annoying parts of YouTube just simply stop working, it's great, I can just focus on my subscriptions and that's it
